The Holt County sentinel., 1887-02-11
Farm Notes.

! LOWS that nave no Ue!uliiI are oltcu
injared in the knees 10y getting up or
down, especially if the floors be wet and
slippery.
! Potatoes marketed Immediately after
digging, ut forty cents, viii give mole
profit !tan Il held over unt.l S. ring and
! sold al fifty cents.
! The best soils for wool are also the
best ior mutton, and it is necessary
/ hat the land be dry, for damp soils are
fruitful causes OF sucu diseases rs liver
rot, tlui c and foot rot.
With reference to the quality of wool.
Ii is claimed that lay pro !uces the best,
sand second, ard lime the OF infer
ior quality. In cod climates wool
las Il finer tcx.are and superior qual-
i:y.
4 n;usty cellar is death to milk or
cream, bat il seems impossible TO pound
II INTO the heads OF some people. More
butter is ruined by bad cellars and
caves than from any other cause Oh the
farm.
A cores! !,ondent of the English Far
mers' Gazette asserts that five pounds
/ of common white beans ground fias aud
| and Eel in hat pound doses with bran
twice dsiiy will cure the worst case of
bloc iy mix.
Mr.. J. o. S:aith, of Steele County,
Das., it Is said, harvested thirty-six and
one-half bushels of wheat per acre from
a section of land, beng the first crop.
He sold the produc! at fifty-six cents
yer bushel
Feed cows well and keep them well
sheltered aud warm the first two or
three cold snaps so that they will not
tail Off in their milk, aud they will be
apt to keep a good flow through the
more severe winter.
\ successful Canadian dalryman
thinks bran, peas and corn mixed the
best bu,ter-produeins food for COWS.
Cows should be MIXED with dry hands.
Cows should rot be mixed IN proximity
10 the duag pile.
The wlEter packing IN the West last
yesr was 6,300,00O hogs; the average
for the past Eve years is 6,OlO, 600; for
the preceding period OF five years, c.
$4,000. and for ten years, G. 800, GOO the
latter number corresponding With last
winters total.
All foxls that feather slowly are usu-
ally hardy. For instance, the B,al,ams
Ii is owing to the fact that the drain on
the system occasioned by quick feather
ing docs not weaken them. Slow feath-
ering while growing is indicative Of
hardness
Cows need light, not only for their
! own health and comfsrt, but because
good butter cannot be made !rsm the
milk of caws kept in dark stables AR,
hight, cleanliness and warmth are four
essentials Of COW stable where COWS
are kept for profit.
The height of the honey fow iu Cuba
is from The middle of December to the
middle of February, and much honey is
gathered throue heat the year, but the
natives have not yet mastered the art Of
rak n. and separating it so lis fine nav-
or is preserved
The farmers of South Carolina have
concluded that they can no longer raise
rice with profit. 1t is very difficult to
obtain reliable labor for the rice fields.
During the last few years several other
cereals have come into us in tho place
OF rice, aud thc demand for /. has in
creased.
Ii the hew cockerei you have Just
purchased fights with the others shu'
him up III email, dark coop il warm
place for week or ten days, feeding
Sparingly al! the time. After the time
has elapsed take him out and put him
IN with the rest, and the chances arc he
will not fight again.
There Is more WOO! grown on each
sheep than formerly, the average bav-
ing doubled in twenty five years. In
1880, the product was two and one-half
pounds per sheep, while in 1855 1t bad
risen to FIVE pounds. This is due to
the grazing up of the common fiocks and
improving them with the use of meriro
rams.